Muslim writer

01/12/2025

Muslim writer

19/11/2025

15/11/2025

Tomorrow, in shāʾa Llāh, a debate will take place in which Muftī Shāhid ʿAlī will face a very misguided individual, ʿUthmān Iqbāl. The topic of the debate will be the Kufr of Qāsim al-Nānotwī, who is one of the four senior figures of the Deobandīs.

The last time such a debate occurred was six years ago, when this same person appeared before Shaykh Asrār Rashīd, and were disgraced in front of the entire world. Hopefully he, ʿUthmān, won’t change the subject along the way, as he usually tries to do, but will instead have an intellectual and mature debate. Allāhu Mustaʿān.

13/11/2025

Imām Shamil was a Naqshbandī Ṣūfi master who fought against the Russians oppressive regime for 25 years and they feared him like no one else in this world. They were the superpowers of the time but he didn't fear anyone but Allāh. His entire army was made up of Ṣūfi warrior who made Dhikr even whilst defending the borders of the Muslims. They never abandoned salah or salawat upon the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ. He was named 'Alī as a child and he inherited much from this name. Four Russian soldiers once tried to kill him so he lept over them and easily finished off three of them. He was then stabbed in the lung so what did he do? He took the sword out of his lung and ended the life of the forth Russian.

He remarkably escaped and found refuge in Dāghestān. He had over 18 stab wounds on his body and a damaged lung, but as soon as his eyes would open, he'd ask his wife if it was time for prayer. He went to Madinah years later and passed away there. Even a sword in the lung and the enmity of the superpowers of his time couldn't prevent him from being buried at the feet of the Prophet ﷺ.

— Shaykh Muḥammad Aslām

12/11/2025

Shaykh ʿUmar al-Fūtī رَحِمَهُ ٱللَّٰهُ, also known as Al-Hajj ʿUmar Ṭaʿl, (c. 1794–1864), was a prominent 19th-century West African Islamīc scholar, Sufi leader of the Tijaniyya order, and military commander. He was the founder of the short-lived Toucouleur Empire, which encompassed parts of modern-day Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea, and Mali, and was known for his military campaigns.

Shaykh was not only a warrior he was a poet, author, and saint. His famous book Rimāḥ Ḥizb al-Raḥīm (“The Lances of the Merciful”) remains one of the deepest works on Tijani dhikr, Salat al-Fatih, and spiritual purification

He mastered Tafsir, Hadīth, and Fiqh, and his thirst for knowledge carried him across the lands from Senegal to Timbuktu, and eventually to Makkāh. In Makkah, he performed Hajj and met scholars of the Tijaniyya Ṣūfi order.

He returned to West Africa with one mission: "To revive Islam, purify the hearts, and unite the Ummah under the light of the Qur’an and Sunnah." He began teaching, guiding, and calling people to Allah peacefully at first, through da’wah and education.

But as French colonizers advanced and local rulers sank into injustice, Shaykh took a stand. He launched both a spiritual and defensive movement not for wealth or conquest, but to protect faith and justice.

His movement known as the Tukulor Empire spread across Senegal, Mali, Guinea, and Niger, uniting thousands under the banner of Islam and the Tijaniyya. He built cities of learning and justice, where Qur’an and knowledge were the law.

In 1864, while battling enemies in Bandiagara (Mali), Shaykh martyred. Shaykh Umar al-Futi (رحمه الله) remains a timeless symbol of faith, courage, and light in West Africa.

10/11/2025

03/11/2025

– Who was Imām Aḥmad Riḍā Khān al-Barayalwī?

He is the Imām Ahl al-Sunnah, reviver of Sunnah, scholar of Sharī'ah, guide of Tarīqah, grandmaster of tafsīr, ḥadīth and fiqh, peerless ḥanafī jurist of his time, vanquisher of innovators and enemies of religion, foremost defender of faith and a polymath, poet, teacher, ḥāfidh, muftī, qādī, gnostic, guide and much more!

He was once asked by his teacher whether he was a jinn or human being, because of how amazed his teacher was as he mastered over 50 branches of knowledge such as; ḥadīth, Fiqh, Tafsīr, Creed, Logic, Astronomy, Mathematics etc. He was born in 1272 (1856), became a Mūftī at the age of 13 years, 10 months and 5 days and memorized the whole Qur'ān in one month.

When he went on his first Ḥajj with his parents in the year 1295, during this visit to the ĥaramayn he received authorisations ['ijāzah] from Shaykh Sayyid Aḥmad Daḥlān and Shaykh 'Abd al-Raḥmān Sirāj. The Shāfi'ī Imām, Shaykh Ḥusayn ibn Sāliḥ Jamal al-Layl took him home without any prior introduction and gave him authorisations in the six books of ḥadīth, the Qādirī path and wrote the authorisations with his own hand, saying: “You are Aḥmed, the Light of Religion.” The Shaykh also kissed the forehead of the young A'la Ḥadrat and said: “I see the light of Allāh’s guidance in this forehead.”

He was indeed a miracle send by Allāh and a great lover of the beloved Prophet ﷺ. May Allāh grant us his Shafa'ah on the Day of Judgement, Āmīn!

This was Sayyīdī Imām Aḥmad Riḍā Khān raḥimahullāh.